Kedi

This second book in the Routledge Docalogue series focuses on a different critical question related to the film from five different scholarly perspectives.

Jaimie Baron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She is author of two books, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (Routledge, 2014) and Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era (2020), and numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is also the director of the Festival of Inappropriation, a yearly international festival of short experimental found footage films and videos. Kristen Fuhs is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Communication at Woodbury University. She writes about documentary film, the American criminal justice system, and contemporary celebrity, and her work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Studies; the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television; and the Journal of Sport & Social Issues.

Introduction: Kedi in context ; 1. From Cat to Clowder: Kedi in the Anthropocene ; 2. Tracking Cats and Voicing Dogs: Locating Street Animals in Kedi and Taskafa: Stories of the Street ; 3. Foreign and Familiar: Kedi and the Musicality of Istanbul ; 4. Kedi Between the Local and the National ; 5. Kedi: Crossover Documentary as Popular Art Cinema ; Epilogue: A conversation with Kedi's director, Ceyda Torun